Who is lined up to start Yankees’ Wild Card Game?

The Yankees may have let out a clue who will start the American League Wild Card Game, with …

NEW YORK — As it stands, if the Yankees don’t touch their rotation the rest of the season, it works out in a way that makes plenty of sense.

J.A. Happ would pitch the American League Wild Card Game.

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Happ would also pitch the first game of the Yankees’ final series of the year, a three-game tilt in Boston, followed by Luis Severino and Masahiro Tanaka.

Still, manager Aaron Boone said not to read too much into Happ starting Sunday against the Orioles at Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees didn’t announce Happ’s assignment until after Friday’s 10-8 win over Baltimore.

“It was more — we were considering giving everyone an extra day and going with a bullpen day but we just feel like we want Happ going (Sunday),” Boone said. “Just it’s important for him to go and hopefully that gives us the best chance to get a victory. It was more just saying do we want to have a bullpen day and push everybody back and we decided against that.”

How would Happ feel about starting the Wild Card?

“I don’t know the best way to answer that,” he said. “I want to pitch. I know that. I always want to pitch. If they choose me, that’s great. If not, that’s great, too. It’s not going to be up to me. I know that. I’ll be ready.”

Happ has been the Yankees’ best pitcher since they acquired him from the Blue Jays at the trade deadline, going 6-0 with a 2.39 ERA in nine starts.

Still, there’s time for the Yankees to reshuffle their rotation so that either Severino or Tanaka gets the start. Severino started last year’s Wild Card, and Tanaka had the assignment in 2015.

Tanaka has a 2.84 ERA in 13 starts since the All-Star break, but he coughed up five runs in four innings in his last start against Boston.

Severino was much better his last outing, giving up just a run in seven frames against the Red Sox. But he’s got a 5.82 ERA in his last 13 starts.

The Yankees are likely to face Oakland in the do-or-die game.

Happ gave up just a run in six innings in Oakland on Sept. 4.

“I’d like to think I went out there with an aggressive mindset,” Happ said of that start. “I remember that game, in particular, being aggressive, just trying to pound the zone and get ahead in the count and that’s what I always do, sometimes with a little more success than others.”

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